The Headless TPA: governance as a service for people who ship software.

A TPA sits between employers and the lab network. It administers drug testing, background checks, and MVR programs: ordering tests, tracking chain-of-custody, managing DOT random pools, and routing results through Medical Review Officers. The science is automated; the administration is the business — which is why it's really an information-routing problem, not a lab problem.

Governance as a service means selling compliance outcomes (DOT drug-testing programs, FCRA-compliant background checks) as a productized service on top of someone else's regulated infrastructure. Engineers care because the hard part — SAMHSA labs, MRO networks, DOT 49 CFR Part 40 workflows — is already built. You integrate and distribute; the platform administers.

The model is applicant-paid: your business clients pay $0, and the test applicant pays directly at order time. Partners keep 25% of every completed test if an LTS Client Success Manager runs their accounts, or 40% if self-managed. There's no inventory and no upfront cost.

Three layers: a physical base of 9,871+ Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp collection sites (a “physical API”), a cognitive engine of agentic AI handling random pool generation, document parsing, and MRO routing, and a white-label experience layer that bridges an employer's ATS to the lab network.

Automation handles ingestion, DOT random pool selection (50% drug / 10% alcohol), pre-adverse-action notices with the mandatory 5-day pause, and MRO routing. Under FCRA, humans remain mandatory for final individualized assessments and adverse action decisions — courts have held automated tools can't make final employment decisions. Verify specifics with counsel.

Apply at partner.labtestingsolutions.com — the application takes about 3 minutes, onboarding completes in roughly 30 days, and first payouts land around day 30.